Hard Times and True Crimes

63. The Ceely Rose Murders

Darlene Hildreth and Melody Gwyn Episode 63

On June 1896, Ceely Rose  poisoned her family with arsenic because they wouldn't let her see or speak the name of their neighbor, Guy Berry. Her father, David, died within a week of being poisoned. Walter, her brother, died within two weeks  and Rebecca, her mother, lived for a month before getting a second dose and then dying. Listen to hear the whole story.
 Male Narrator-Curtis Hildreth
Music-Isaiah Hildreth

 Sources:
The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm  By Mark Sebastian Jordan
findagrave.com
newspapers.com
Most Notorious Podcast 
https://www.malone.edu/files/resources/thesis-final-draft-rarickdocx.pdf


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